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What’s more the distraction of trauma they may have experienced and unfamiliarity with their foster care placements can impede learning. Understand barriers to academic success for children in foster care and learn effective policies and practices that can overcome challenges and help children assimilate in school, improve attendance and grades, and guide them along a path towards high school completion and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/f3af11a9-3537-4e3b-8e51-d656706d9da3/iiona-virgin-LLJ-HOiH1Ww-unsplash.jpg Improving Outcomes - Working with Teens and Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Teens and older youth struggle frequently with permanency, multiple placements and success with school, relationships and independence. Find out how to help these kids navigate their adolescence in foster care and out, and avoid many of the pitfalls of growing up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/52250ed6-eacf-4beb-91c0-4b9035cd541d/kulli-kittus-KQfxVDHGCUg-unsplash.jpg Improving Outcomes - Dealing with Parental Addiction Parental substance use often occurs through multiple generations of the same family, and can lead to removal of children from the home. Learn about addiction, the role it plays in child wellbeing in and out of foster care, plus successful strategies for breaking the cycle of addiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/a74cf20e-93f5-4165-be6b-48bfa0c74bea/Rawlings_017.jpg Improving Outcomes - Improving Safety by Understanding Trauma The vast majority of children who enter foster care arrive with significant exposure to adverse experiences and other traumatic events. Learn how trauma can drive child and youth behavior and how to respond in ways that are trauma-responsive and eliminate or mitigate negative engagements with youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/ffdfb38f-c298-40ef-a77e-b283cff11dfe/japheth-mast-A6QEpNxE8uo-unsplash.jpg Improving Outcomes - Avoiding, Mitigating and Understanding Runaway Situations Running away is rarely a child or youth’s first choice. It is dangerous, scary and lonely to leave the safety of a family or home, yet kids who run often run frequently, endangering their physical health, mental health and futures. Why? Take a deep dive on why kids run, best responses to runaway situations and approaches and therapies that can prevent such self-endangerment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/3b5d34f3-af78-4276-8d5c-c38658b4eea0/aedrian-ECt01A5HZtw-unsplash.jpg Improving Outcomes - How to Help Kids In or At Risk of Being in Foster Care (Without Being a Foster Parent) “It takes a village to raise a child” is more than just a platitude. 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Also learn how to responsibly respond to a lawsuit to preserve your reputation, your business, and the safety of the children in your care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/e5e3b6d7-9d0b-4f52-8e64-73d5947e862f/kelly-sikkema-1YeQl23dvJI-unsplash.jpg Laws and Liabilities - Expert Witness Services Need help navigating a child protection case, a lawsuit or with international child welfare law? CWJT’s Tom Rawlings may be the expert you need to review a case or testify as an expert witness in court. And if Tom is not the right fit, other members of the CWTJ team may be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/8a8f5616-df9a-4813-ad00-f558c8356e2e/kenta-kariya-PuJorxHE78c-unsplash.jpg Laws and Liabilities - All About Dependency Court­­ Dependency proceedings tend to be gatherings of many people, each representing a segment of the child protection story: biological parents, foster parents, Court Appointed Special Advocates, attorneys, child welfare caseworkers, and more. Find out how it all fits together in this customized overview of child welfare proceedings and protocols in your area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/6eb9f7d6-57c5-4228-ac22-cba4fb58db70/Rawlings_022.jpg Laws and Liabilities - Addressing International Challenges, Barriers and Complications While conditions that land children in foster care may be similar around the world, laws, rules, regulations and protocols vary widely. What’s more, the international nature of many adoptions and other child safety situations adds to the complexity with each country-to-country communication, legal exchange or movement of a child. Improve your understanding of international child safety, adoption and foster care, and how to navigate common barriers to achieve successful placements and child outcomes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/59512698-33ba-49be-812d-facaffdc71be/Rawlings_015.jpg Laws and Liabilities - Child Welfare Law 101 (Federal and State) New to the field, too busy to keep up with state or federal law, or just wanting to know more about how it works? 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We will work one-on-one or in small groups with you and your leadership team on customized approaches and strategies to enhance your leadership skills and help your agency flourish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/22f61576-eb47-4def-ae03-8a50da30a04c/maxime-xzwsMmXTtzI-unsplash.jpg Maximizing Agency Success - Bad Things That Can Happen When You Don’t Take Care of Yourself First “Put the oxygen mask on yourself, and then help those around you.” Child protection is incredibly taxing work both physically and emotionally. The 24/7/365 nature of the job can ultimately damage your own health and that of those around you. 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We will work with you to customize child protection and child welfare trainings, workshops, and presentations to educate your staff or enrich their understanding of any number of child welfare issues and situations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b772d9db8f2a087b45f291/4c47dc99-81ee-48ec-acfc-d5ae3025bfec/mufid-majnun-6203Ynp5ZqE-unsplash.jpg Maximizing Agency Success - Safety Culture -What is it? Why is it? How to have it? Safety science is a tool that uses scientific methods to ensure safety in everything from healthcare settings to aviation to car manufacturing. Such an approach can be a game-changer in child protection practice and policy, improving outcomes and helping not only children, but those who work in child welfare as well. 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Tom has served the State of Georgia (US) as an attorney, juvenile court judge, child rights ombudsman, and director of the State Division of Family and Children Services for more than 30 years. He holds a law degree from the University of Georgia and a Masters’ degree in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University (UK). Certified by the National Association of Counsel for Children as Child Welfare Law Specialist, he understands how to implement best practices in child protection. He formerly served as an abogado consultor for the Mexican government and worked to protect children of Mexican citizens living in the US. In addition to his work in the US, Tom served as the Guatemala country director for International Justice Mission, where he built and led a team of Guatemalan professionals who worked with government prosecutors and courts to protect and treat child sexual abuse victims, prosecute offenders, and train child abuse professionals. 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